Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.comp.os.windows-11 Subject: Re: Pickup trucks for city boys Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2025 14:24:56 +0200 Lines: 58 Message-ID: References: <106mke5$1di32$1@dont-email.me> <108428t$7mtq$4@dont-email.me> <108aefl$1n7i9$9@dont-email.me> <108hddu$3bl64$2@dont-email.me> <108leod$b9i7$1@dont-email.me> <108mli5$k17h$1@dont-email.me> <108moro$ktk8$1@dont-email.me> <108muat$m6bo$1@dont-email.me> <108pk9d$1bk4u$1@dont-email.me> <108s0i7$1ucng$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net q2kDJPq7uraFWDv03zzEAQkRsuNyXhyIOgvoSMvs/F3rQ69Grq X-Orig-Path: Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:Mr67ikRz2uUJ8F3HAavfhTpVth8= sha256:sHdfYTdu26avOKdyEZWXPt00Cu+jQT0gJL+NB02D5Pc= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:72822 alt.comp.os.windows-11:23417 On 2025-08-30 06:10, rbowman wrote: > On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 22:26:18 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote: >> On 2025-08-29 20:28, rbowman wrote: >>> On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 20:49:06 +1000, Daniel70 wrote: >>> >>>> On 29/08/2025 4:31 am, rbowman wrote: >>>>> On Thu, 28 Aug 2025 23:07:16 +1000, Daniel70 wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> During Summer, when the Ground dried out, this transfer function >>>>>> sometimes didn't work so the Correcting Action was to get a Jug of >>>>>> water and go outside to the Earth spike and pour the Water on the >>>>>> spike and surrounding Ground. >>>>> >>>>> Pissing on the ground rod works too. More conductive. >>>>> >>>> But that might have required us to be "out of Uniform whilst On >>>> Duty"!! >>> >>> https://taskandpurpose.com/military-life/military-equalizer-iraq-piss- >>> tubes/ >>> >>> You just need some planning on the placement of the sanitary >>> arrangements and the ground rods. >> >> Ok, I understand the tubes with a funnel, but what are the tubes with a >> sphere for? > > That's only the lighting. The tubes with the 'spheres' are angled away so > you're seeing the back of the funnel. If you look closely at the one on > the right you can see the funnel transition. Those are the deluxe design. I see :-D And ladies? > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/violinsoldier/191846328 > > They must have thought the PVC was too small a diameter for accuracy and > had something that could be used as a funnel. As one of the comments say > 'don't eat the yellow snow'. I worked with a guy who had 4 years in the > service, the Navy iirc. We were driving from Minneapolis to the job site > in the hinterlands, and there was a billboard with that slogan. Jimmy > asked what it meant. Nice guy but I don't know how he could be so > clueless. He wasn't dumb by any means just incredibly naive. > > Fate had more in store for him. He'd planned for some recreation in his > spare time since we went out for two weeks at a time and brought his > bowling ball. The rest of his luggage wound up in Timbuktu or some other > undisclosed location, but the bowling ball, shoes, and so forth arrived > safely on the luggage carousel at Minneapolis–Saint Paul International. LOL. -- Cheers, Carlos.